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a local fault too nice to have on my wall pensions but. i'm not sure i remember each and every one i was always tired headaches would never go away. very sensitive to the lights from the eyes and what the pain was just unbelievable that we would lead up like you know like fetuses in the bed in pain. i do have. friends i made sure the desires are very normal we've lost all desires i'm not as active as they used to be you know this about us and talk about their. fifteen just well surely i mean some bosses niggling pains noone again but a soldier for the nation to being in pain all the same a trooper was called by the depleted uranium that was better than the truth.

with prison officers they can bring up an issue that is not really. it's a bring something else all you're getting on the guy or. girl words and then just tell you kennie lies to cover up their wish. for the moment it was a cold morning. and in my soul was in finance new kowloon i'll never forget the so just because some local the way they held on to their families. and so much crime

it's. sadness. from worry that she said. take care of my kids as if they were humans. but if you live to be that. very good thank god she's come back even if she was. with her because so many of them didn't. this last this summer. after vega leopold dina's husband lives in the bronx in new york city he was sent to iraq in two thousand and three he was a sergeant and have been serving in a national guard unit for over twenty years in iraq he became a military policeman you never saw live combat it. if this is.

an error akki soldier is. everything. this is for a few months after being in iraq or started feeling ill suffering from intense migraine headaches and muscular pain it was declared unfit for service was discharged and he returned home the peace still suffers from severe headaches fatigue and pain for months the arjun of his symptoms was a mystery he had some medical tests the results where he had been poisoned by depleted uranium a radioactive material that had been used in the war. more of damage off has been arrested about fifty times it's always for the same reasons and he's about to do it again on this bitter cold morning in minnesota he's

protesting for what he sees as a just cause he has fought many such peaceful battles in his lifetime he's even won some. sadness. freedom rides i will be climbed. as. we were asked back. and a break later we were hard on crime the most obese played pros and i'm part of maximum security. i was lying there. as people were some freedoms. and i was crying not because they were honest. because of the not. belmonte everybody you know. sized. i'm going to do

this rash the i'm right and i'm gone look for that feeling. i'll try motivates me. a line. of three billion and weapons. they may all hurry demonology. me. my boss the bombs. land mines and yes sir ballance and the. ballot for sure is the. first thing every wednesday morning rain or shine for the past ten years or more and a group of fellow pacifists demonstrate outside the headquarters of this local

armament company they remind people that depleted uranium weapons were used in the war in arrests and that this company still manufactures them. depleted uranium ore the human emissions have been the subject of heated debate because of the secondary effects they may have on the health of troops and civilians. because we want the change we want nuclear abolition way while we were against the weapons of mass destruction like depleted uranium podcasters bombs to put a drop of those ration ideally says we should not use any drugs unless it is better to play safe and they test well what they plated uranium we do it just the other theory we go and use it as. a scientist i thing. yes radio. talk should be.

one of the most deadly and effective weapons in the first gulf war they are a kind of metallic arrow or bullet and are called penetrators they were launched by american tanks planes and helicopters and the result was that saddam hussein's armor was destroyed in a matter of minutes. the penetrators are not explosives they are flechettes or bullet like spindles of depleted uranium a very dense self igniting metal those characteristics and the enormous kinetic energy released by the penetrator on impact means to you rounds cut through tank

armor like a hot knife through butter fragments of burning d.-u. penetrate the crew compartment and incinerate everything in their path. a few weeks ago at this veterans hospital in illinois doug a retired major in the united states army underwent an operation to remove cataracts from his eyes he's a veteran of both the first gulf war and the war in vietnam very clear that uranium munitions would cause injuries and i damage so what extensive exposures that i have and again the uranium dust settling on the i as a consequence over the years of develop a cataract. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one when he was still in the army and after land combat. kuwait and iraq were ok was appointed to research the

effects of the depleted uranium munitions that had been used for the first time officially in that war as units job was to clean out american tanks equipped with. that had been destroyed by friendly fire i started getting sick can argue started getting sick within twenty four hours forty eight hours the first thing that showed up was respiratory problems u.s. department of veteran affairs has formally diagnosed as reactive bear when disease dude occupational exposure to depleted uranium in my case and so we developed a rash on the rash of still would be a back that's rash right now is open and bleeding. was my guy started dying and i was having real serious medical problems i couldn't get medical care. for ok took part in a study commissioned by the pentagon on the after effects of depleted uranium munitions what the study found was at odds with the official line and roky ended up becoming an anti d u activist. no i'm not a peacenik i'm

a war hero award that finishing his job because as a person who was assigned the responsibility to clean up the mess who was assigned responsibility to the research who was assigned responsibility it right there army regulations which are formally adopted in absolute regard as you officer who wrote the training programs i learned and what i learned scared. battlefields and fighting are ok took part in the production of this video it was filmed in one thousand nine hundred five four years after the first gulf war record to train soldiers presented it sends conflicting messages on do you think in part one it points out the risks of toxic contamination if dust from the substances is swallowed or inhaled and it describes the hazards of finding out how much depleted uranium is in haled swallowed or gets under the skin heavy metal poisoning may

occur which can cause damage to internal organs and tissues. health effects of ionizing radiation depend on whether it is alpha beta or gamma and if the radioactive material is inside or outside the body alpha is the least penetrating but is the most hazardous if it does get into the body heavy metals bind to d.n.a. we know that for a long time and heavy metals cause cancer they probably cause it because of this binding to d.n.a. which disrupts the way the d.n.a. can behave in the cell so. this sensually d.n.a. damaging agents. may be partially it is chemical and partially it is radiation then raj these effects are why the u.s. army recommends strong protective measures for their troops even though the film ends up minimizing the hazards of depleted uranium remember depleted uranium is not

an immediate hazard. bottom line unless you're involved in a detonation or fire with depleted uranium as are jar relatively small. some units of the new york national guard were called up and sent to iraq after the invasion of two thousand and three gerard matthew went there with his unit their job was to scorch convoys. on the figure when she came home after the war and she started having headaches are easily irritated by the slightest thing the kids may do he's changed a lot like you let me tell you something you've never had a headache you have had six seven headaches a day and anything terribly almost fifty six months i mean it's really debilitating

and a headache if your household yes they're they're short spaced but they come and go . well and another thing i guess is that bumps and skin. really here. i think is a letter from. my finally met you got in touch with other veterans like hector vega who had similar symptoms they all took a test to see if they had been poisoned by depleted uranium the results were a surprise. he said. you have four to eight times higher than other soldiers. which makes your being the person that has the highest level. i said leave us to reason my daughter came out the way she is. the couple has a baby girl who was born with a birth defect on one hand her mother is convinced that it is on account of

gerard's exposure to d.-u. . so yes i mean i knew what i saw deep down in my heart and i knew that she was gone like that even yes because of something he hadn't asked one of us and we started looking for answers on the internet i mean. i think i have a picture comes hand was identical to my daughter's when the money was an iraqi baby that had been exposed to depleted uranium so by me for me that was the proof my baby's hand and the hand of that iraqi baby in fact the key to your. natural uranium is made up of two isotopes ninety nine percent as you remember to thirty eight point seven percent is the more radioactive uranium two thirty five. the nuclear industry uses isotope separation to produce enriched uranium which

contains a higher concentration of uranium two thirty five this enriched uranium is more radioactive the natural uranium and it's used in the manufacture of atomic weapons depleted uranium is the by product of this process it is less radioactive but it's still toxic and this is what's used to make antitank weapons. weapons can also be made with you raney i'm already used by nuclear power plants but in the process it is contaminated with the highly radioactive elements generated inside nuclear reactors this is a cheap way of getting rid of many tons of nuclear waste which otherwise would be very expensive to store safely. tucked in a barrel. the nuclear energy program is saying millions of millions of pounds own gain rid

of your nuclear waste. but the way it's being done there's so immoral you know early is immoral. i believe it's illegal. to use it because it's highly effective it fly straight it's highly lethal weapon. and being a first shot one shot kill so taking it off the battlefield is not a is not a neutral act. it's an act that will cause the loss of lives by taking away both protection and the superb perp weapon the pentagon has kind of oversold me portions of to put it right you know to defend the weapon it exaggerated the importance of it. but it was actually guided missiles had a particular hellfire missile destroyed about

a third of all the iraqi tanks that were destroyed. bernard rosco held several positions in the pentagon during the clinton administration and he spent a number of years directing research into the so-called gulf war illnesses. the kinds of symptoms that are seen in people with gulf war illness are totally inconsistent with the exposure that we did for any and so they came to the conclusions as has the united nations the e.u. . almost everybody who has looked at this in an unbiased scientific way that depleted uranium is not related to the unexplained illnesses that we saw in the first gulf war. thank you. i. this is the center of amman the

capital of jordan among the shoppers are all ali and how off to iraqi cancer specialists today they are sightseeing but they have come to amman to take part in an on call article congress sponsored by a large american pharmaceutical company here they will find out about the latest treatments for cancer but they will not be able to use them in iraq. we are crippled and we are looking to people dying with though any help from us or from others we could say we are crippled and or moments are tied together because we haven't got the first silly t's to treat our patients. both doctors work in a university hospital and they are taking part in a study funded by german universities to examine the soaring number of cancers in

that iraqi province. was the. boy is one. is in his late and is contaminated his mother and father. urine is contaminated by the geranium as it is that's the change of. of course we don't know this which is that. we've gone. through was the iraqi province in which you do you minissha as were most heavily used. doctor or least says that radioactivity still lingers in many places he's convinced that this is what lies behind the increase in cancers some of which are very rare. related to radiation. as lymphoma as an soft tissue

concern is. increased. two alarming number. particularly so-called malignant fibrous is to a site film which is close to related to radiation. goes into low twenty five cases so is some something strange and give us clues to the effect of radiation on our patients but we should prove it. another conflict in which depleted uranium weapons were officially used was the war

in kosovo in one nine hundred ninety nine. in reprisal for ethnic cleansing policies against albanian coasts of ours nato planes bombed serbian forces and yugoslav infrastructure. in that campaign syrian armored tanks and vehicles were attacked with the human issues. a few months later the media reported an unusually high rate of leukemia and other cancers and the european veterans who had served in kossovo talian french spanish and others the term balkan syndrome was coined several organizations began to call for a ban on de u.s. . naval had to call a meeting of the atlantic council to appease its allies once again the message was

contradictory they had knowledge the risks but downplayed them. we're confident that there is little risk for the year munitions but we refused to be complacent. the existing medical consensus is clear the hazard from depleted uranium is both very limited and limited to very specific circumstances but nature is doing everything it can to ensure that relevant information is made publicly available they will have encountered on experts have consistently denied that there is any cause and effect relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome you have just pledged most nato authorities have agreed in the years since one nine hundred ninety nine no indications have been given as to whether or not any medical follow up has been done on the soldiers supposedly exposed to depleted uranium in kosovo and the member states about the precautions to be taken when it

comes to depleted uranium in the gulf we have not been able to see any indication of any medical problem from those who had the highest exposure who were in or on to be able it was struck with the polluted uranium and they about half the crew survived those hit half died and those that survived we've not been able to see any medical problem now nine years later. and they had we know the highest exposure to depleted uranium or of anyone else serving to go. question was that so much as i can with a. lot of you drawing battle lines over collective bargaining puts america's democracy dangles in the line of fire but is this move the red tape rolled back.

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